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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Parable
Aside
Image
Nonfiction
2. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Tercet
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Paradox
Catharsis
3. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Falling Action
Theme
4. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Character
Free Verse
Trochee
Folklore
5. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Hyperbole
Rising Action
Sonnet
Understatement
6. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Parallelism
Epic
Closed Form
Octave
7. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Conceit
Figurative Language
Narrator
Nonfiction
8. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
3rd Person (Limited)
Closed Form
Literal Language
Conflict
9. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Synecdoche
Sestina
Metonymy
Imagery
10. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Myth
Epic
Plot
11. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Pyrrhic
Aside
Syntax
Sestina
12. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Comic Relief
Dialogue
Elegy
13. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Sonnet
Character
Antagonist
14. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Sonnet
Climax
Character
Epigram
15. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Connotation
Subplot
Couplet
Satire
16. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Plot
Situational Irony
Apostrophe
Simile
17. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
Aubade
18. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Parallelism
Figurative Language
Rising Action
19. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Epiphany
Apostrophe
Aside
Hyperbole
20. A short saying with a moral.
Aphorism
Tercet
External Conflict
Foreshadowing
21. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Onomatopoeia
Trochee
Satire
Nonfiction
22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
3rd Person (Limited)
Oxymoron
Blank Verse
23. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Antagonist
Villanelle
Ballad
24. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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25. A poem that tells a story.
Narrative Poem
Denotation
Act
Epiphany
26. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Epigram
Tercet
Plot
Folklore
27. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
Repetition
Motif
Sonnet
28. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Aside
Rhyme
Folklore
Style
29. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Aside
Characterization
Character
30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
Falling Action
Imagery
Rhyme
31. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Quatrain
Foreshadowing
Sestina
Pyrrhic
32. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Plot
Dialect
Motif
Ode
33. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Epiphany
Persona
Subplot
Repetition
34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Setting
Antagonist
Irony
Understatement
35. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Epiphany
Connotation
Anapest
Blank Verse
36. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
Allegory
Epiphany
Meter
37. The time and place of a story or play.
Setting
Narrative Poem
Mood
Stanza
38. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Hyperbole
39. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Elegy
Fiction
Convention
40. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Nonfiction
Theme
External Conflict
41. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Nonfiction
Antagonist
Subject
42. A character struggles against some outside force.
Synecdoche
Complication
External Conflict
Setting
43. The person who 'tells' the story.
Motif
Anapest
Narrator
3rd Person (Omniscient)
44. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Parody
Personification
Anapest
Connotation
45. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Rhyme
Folklore
Closed Form
Myth
46. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Apostrophe
Paradox
3rd Person (Limited)
Sestina
47. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Folklore
Literal Language
Audience
Parable
48. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Foreshadowing
Dactyl
Verbal Irony
Act
49. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Aphorism
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
Dialect
50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Point of View
3rd Person (Omniscient)
1st Person